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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 28 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/28.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/28-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Genesis 28</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/27.htm" title="Genesis 27">◄</a> Genesis 28 <a href="../genesis/29.htm" title="Genesis 29">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/genesis/28.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, “You must not marry any of these Canaanite women. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>May God Almighty<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>May God pass on to you and your descendants<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He also knew that Jacob had obeyed his parents and gone to Paddan-aram. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Esau visited his uncle Ishmael’s family and married one of Ishmael’s daughters, in addition to the wives he already had. His new wife’s name was Mahalath. She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son.</p><p class="hdg">Jacob’s Dream at Bethel</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, “I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But he was also afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The next morning Jacob got up very early. He took the stone he had rested his head against, and he set it upright as a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He named that place Bethel (which means “house of God”), although it was previously called Luz.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Jacob made this vow: “If God will indeed be with me and protect me on this journey, and if he will provide me with food and clothing, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and if I return safely to my father’s home, then the LORD will certainly be my God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">28:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">El-Shaddai.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">28:4 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">seed;</span><span class="ft"> also in 28:13, 14.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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